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Figures Spoiled by Athletics.

1t is the athletic girl, the new type Of
girl, who goes in for nearly all the sports
her brother takes up, who is, if she has
previously cultivated her figure, the
worst deformed girl of all. There is
nothing like athletics and corsets, mixed
or in alternate doses, to bring out the
possibilities of curves, twists and abnor-
NAL developments in modern girl. All
British femininity is at preseut engaged
in screaming contradictions to Labou-
chere because he had the hardihood to
declare that tennis playing girls were
crooked. In half-dozen grouds at the
Central Park yesterday picked out four
players whose right shoulders were no.
ticeably of different shape from the left,
and six or seven in whom the same thing,
though less obvious, had begun to mani
fest itself, the summer exertion enlarg-
ing the muscles and light clothing thrust
ing them out of place and accentuating
the uneven developments of the body.
Girls who row in corsets are curious
sight, the extra muscular development
ali taking place high up, where the blood
has chance to circulate, and making the
shoulders tower above the rest of the
body.-Neao York Letter.
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THE NATIONAL GAME.

THE League clubs this season have en-
ployed exactly fifty-one pitchers.
WHITNEY, of the W Washingtons, has the best
all around record for pitching.
THERE are vastly more left-handed batsmeD
in the League than in the Association.
PITTsBURG has been shut out four times
,, once each by New York and Detroit and
twice by indianapolis.
MANAGER SCHMELz says there is no truth
in the report that Cincinnati will enter the
National League if they win second place,
GERHARDT, Houck, Parsons and Summer
are the latest additions to the army Of play
ers released by the Metropolitan manage
ment.
PAUL RADFoRD. of the Metropoltans, has
made over 100 runs this season. He is one of
the best base runners in the American Asso-
citation.
IT is stated that the recent decision of Judge
Valhaut in the in the Sunday ballplaying
case must stop baseball games on Sunday in
st. Louis, Mo.
Ex-SEcRETARY CARL ScHURz is a great
admirer of the National game He was in at
tendance at one Of the recent Boston-Pltts-
burg contests.
In the National League 1a6 games coasti-
tute seasons series for each club. That
number is not played by all the clubs, as there
are some postponed games
PHILADELPHIA carried off the honors dur
ing the last trip in the West. The team won
moro victories and sustained less defeats than
any of their Eastern rivals.
THE New Yorks this season have shut out
their opponents five times. Keefe blanked
the Philadelphias and the Pittsburgs. Welch
the Bostons and the Indianapolis, and Mattl-
more the Indianapolis.
THE League players who have made ten or
more home runs are Thompson, 10; Ryan, II;
Morrill, 12 O'Brien, Wood and Pfeffer, 10
each: Brouthers, IA, and Roger Connor tops
the list with II homers.
PRESIDENT STEARNs of the Detroit Club,
while in New York, said that he considered
Anson, the Chicago Captain, ahead of all
others as a general of baseball team, and
that he would willingly give $4,000 for his
services
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MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC.
rRAuss, latest opera is called "Simpli

Strauss latest opera is called "simpli-
cius"
EMMA THURsBY, the singer, is back from
Europe, as determined as ever not to sing in
opera
MARY ANDERSON is to follow "a Winters
Tale" with LAS You Like IT. at the London
England Lyceum.
Lillian OLcorT has p lrchased the American
rights to Sardou's new play which he has
written for Bernhardt.
MINNIE PALMER is about to return to her
native land with brand new play and $780,
QUO worth Of diamonds.
LOUIS ALDRIcH has purchased the Ameri-
can rights of the "kattr Diamond" all Eng
liSh nelodrama success.
JOHN A. STEVENS, the American actor, has
been arrested in England for failing to pay
s2ti4 alleged to be due to the manager of the
Opera Comiqne.
MILE. RHEA, like other foreign actresses,
has declared her intentions" to become an
American citizen, and has taken out her first
naturalization papers.
MINNEAPoLIs claims that the finest theatre
in America is her new Hennepln avenue
house, which was opened recently with the
Booth-Barrett company.
HENRY WILLARD, the financicr, is an ac-
complished musician, and often spends his
evenings in playing violin to his daughters
panoforte accompaniment.
Music lovers may be interested to know
that the original title of Mozart's Don Gio-
vannin was III Dissoluto Punito Ossia Don
. Giovanni" and the price paid for the work
was S240.
ITALY and England are joining France in
the movement for lighting all the theatres
by electricity, and in Spain also the electric
light is being resorted to for securing greater
safety in public halls, theatres, cafes, etc.
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PROMINENT PEOPLE.

Count Won MoLTKE is about to celebrate
his eighty yseventh birthday in Berlin.
SENATOR HEARST, of California, is worth
$4,000, 600, and has an income of sSG,00e.
MANAGER THOMAS POTTER, of the Union
Pacific Railroad, gets 1000 year salary.
THE Duke of Buccleuch, said to be the
richest man in Scotland, has an income OF g
million and half dollars year.
MOSES T. STEVENS, of Andover, Massa-
chusetts, is said to be the largest individual
woolen manufacturer in the United States.
CHARLES DICKENS, the younger, is re-
markably like the famous novelist in all his
habits, and has not little of his capacity.
He is fifty years OF age.
1T is said that George L. Schuyler is the
only living member of the syndicate that
built the yacht America and won the cup
from Great Britain in 1851.
ISAAC JEANS, Philadelphia Quaker, who
has made a fortune OF $4,000, OO0 as fruit
importer, began his business career by selling
oranges and apples at retail.
KING KALAKAUA, Of tho Sandwich ISL
ands, has invited the yachtsmcn of San
Francisco to come and help him celebrate his
50th birthday on November It,
MISS OLoFF KRARER, of Ottawa, Illinois,
native Esquimau from the eastern coast
OF Greenland, has been lecturing in Chicago.
She is thirty years old and is only forty
inches high.
THE engagement of Senator Joseph r
Hawley and Miss Edith Homer. of Philadel-
phia, is announced. Miss Homer has been
four years Assistant Manager of the BlocSley
Almshouse, having had careful training as
nurse in England and practical experience in
the care of the sick and wounded in the Zulu
and Egyptian wars
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a Lady Real Estate Agent.

The sphere of woman's activity Is en-
larging, and almost every year sees mem.4
bers of the sex invading some new field
usually supposed to belong to men,
Here is an instance related in the Herald
of Chicago: ss
There is a very clever real estate
agent in this city. She is disturbing
her male competitors almost as much az
that other bright lady, the insurance
agent, who, when attacked for doing,
business for an unlisted company, turned
savagely on her ungallant assailants and
quieted them by threatening to hoist
them by their own petard. This lady
real estate agent, Mrs. Case, makes
specially of furnished houses, and, somes
what after the fashion of that cleyerests
of all Chicago business women, Mrs. Hari
riet Hubbard Aver, turns her large soci5
ETY. acquaintance to averyproftable use,
To find a good tenant for q handsome
home all furnished is difficult and DELI
icate duty. The male agent in his Office
is little fitted to perform it satisfactorily q
This lady real estate agent does her busi.
ness in the parlors of her patrons; finds
from the gossip among the fashionabls.
ladies of her acquaintance the plans rot
pretty nearly all the desirable people in|
town, and not only picks up business
during this boudoir gossip, but often aca:
tually closes it. Mrs. Cases idea is not
only novel one, but looks sensible and
practicable. Women really rent the
homes, especially the furnished homes.
The very best person to solicit the busi-s
ness ought to be woman with fashion,
able acquaintance, and the very best
place the parlors of the danes who wilH
preside over the new home when it Is.
accepted. At any rate, the lady real
estate agent is success, as big a success
almost as the lady insurance agent, and
the latter is the best known woman un-a
derwriter in the country.
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An Esauimau Dog With a History.

Wolf, the nigh leader of the dog team
that drew the sledges in the famous Gree.
" Arctic expedition, is now resident OF
Oakland, having spent the summer there
for his health. He may be seen at the
home of John w. Mcneil, painter, BY
whom he is kept at the expense of Gen.
eral Sherman, his owner. Wolf has 9
history. He is the only dog ever enlisted
in the United States navy, and after the
close of the expedition Wolf was given
his regular papers of honorable discharge
from the government employ. Lieu.
tenant Grcely, in whose possession Wolf
fell, presented him to General Sherman,
who has ever since kept him. The hot
Eastern summers have been very trying
on VOLTS cold blood, and this summer he
was sent to California that he might es,
cape the heat. He was sent consigned to
George H. King, of San Francisco, who
had brother-in-law in the expedition.
Mr.. King placed him in the care of Mr..
Mcneil. Wolf is large animal, with
long gray silky hair and possesses superior
intelligence.-San Francisco Chronicle.
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Lace Dresses in Holland.

It would simplify matters wonderfully
should the women of this country adopt
an ancient custom observed in Holland,
where it is the ambition of every Dutch
lady of high degree to possess black
lace dress. This is carefully worn and
lasts a lifetime, in many cases being
handed down from one generation to
another.
The singular feature of this custom is
that, no matter what the style OF the
dress, whether of ancient or modern
fashioning, it is perfectly correct to don
it upon whatever occasion of state or
social entertainment when the owner
may desire to appear. Indeed no lady's
wardrobe is considered complete without
this dress, which is made all in one
piece.
The lady for whom the garment is to
be fashioned having expressed her pref
erence in the matter, patterns are drawn
and given to the lacemakers, who then
set to work and make it according to di-
rections, without single seam.
Such dress, is, of course, expensive
at the outset, but once secured is most
economical, as it is elegant, and, no mat
ter how frequently worn, is always in
good taste and admired by the company.
London Paper.
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A Wool Season.

This is again a wool season, that is,
all-wool materials rank first as favorites,
and aIe either made up quite simply,
with draperies of the same, or else used
where smarter style is required, in con-
junction with plush or velvet. Blacks
and checks rival stripes in favor. The
new stripes, however, are unlike those
with which we are familiar, in that the
stripes are corded, the cord in many
cases so defined by being raised above
the ground that they have the appear
ance of narrow lines of braid stitched on
it, this being especially pronounced in
those woolens of dark stripes on light
grounds, and vice versa. The wool
ground of some of the handsomest of
the raised striped textiles is generally
of serge or camel's hair, and very
artistic effect is given by a woven fiat
stripe being set next that which is raised,
and so cleverly managed that it looks as
if it were shadow cast by the bolder
ine.-Neao York Post.
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THE LABOR WORLD.

THE knights of Labor lost $50, 900 members
the past year.
A HOME for working girls is being built in
Pittsburs, Penn.
SUNDAY factory labor in Germany is en-
forced by the sharp competition between EN-,
ployers, and an agitation which Will arrest
it is likely to set in.
AT New River, n. c., the Knights OF Labor
have induced the cotton mills to reduce the
hours of labor from twelve to eleven, and
nav wages in money instead of scrip.
THERE are $40 Agricultural Wheels in Ten
nessee Of these 1l3 were organized the past
wear. Arkansas has over l,O0o, and last year
they elected twenty-thres members OF the
Arkansas Legislature.
JOSEPH SELLwooD has made $500, 900 from
his contract to take the ore out Of an iron
mine at Gogebic, Wis. He started penniless
three wears ago and now makes $780, a
wear by sub-lett;ng his ten-year contract
SUPERINTENDENT HoRNER Of the Kansas
Stat. silk station thinks that the climate OF
the West is peculiarly adapted to silk pro.
duction. and that silk can he made in Kansas
and Missouri which shall be superior to the
imported article.
THERE are now in New Yor k City lis, Is9
buildings of all kinds For the nine months
ending with September 30 plans for 3,69S
new buildings to cost $50, 23G, 221, were filed
AS compared with the same period last year
this is an increase of 2,259 in buildings and
50 235, ,1S9 in value.
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Foreign.

The Scotchmen and Englishmen are greatly
disappointed by theresult of the international
yacht race at New York. The universal be-
lief was that the Thistle would win.
SPANISH soldiers have burned the village
of the Sooloo rebels OH the island Of Pata.
Afghans have refused to take up the cause
of Ayoub Khan, the pretender to the Ameer's
throne.
STANLEY's expedition in Africa is reported
as progressing without any obstacles other
than those the country offers.
KING JAJA, of Obosbo, West Africa,
ordered the natives not to do any trading
except through his agents, and enforced his
order by beheading $50 of his subjects as
warning to others. The British Consul has
caused King Jaja's arrest.
GERMANY has seized the Samoan Islands in
reported violation Of treaties with other
nations.
DocToRs in Paris report that Dom Pedro,
Emperor Of Brazil will never be able to re-
sumo the throne, owing to the effect OF his
disease (diabetes on his brain.
The Irish National League is holding meet
ings in Ireland despite the interdiction of the
authorities.
CHINA is extending its telegraph system so
as to have direct communication with Europe
and America.
A STRONG shock Of earthquake has been
felt throughout Greece
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W0MAN'S, WORLD.
PLEASANT LITERATURE FOR
FEMININE READERS.
An OId-fashioned Girl.

An OlQ-1aSh1oneQ G1rl.
Old-fashioned? Yes, Inust confess
The antique pattern of her dress,
The ancient frills and furbelows,
The faded ribbons and the bows.
Why she should show those shrunken
charms,
That wrinkled neck, those tawny arms,
cannot guess; her russell gown
Round her spare form hangs loosely down;
Her voice is thin and cracked; her eye
And smile have lost their witchery.
By those faint jests, that tagging wit,
By each attenuated curl,
She surely is, must admit,
An odd old-fashioned girl.
Tis long, long since she had beau,
And now with those who sit Arrow
Along the wall she takes her place,
With something Of her old-time grace.
She yearns to join the may waltz,
And slyly shifts her smelling-salts
All, many an angel in disguise
May walk before our human eyesl
Whereer the fever-smitten lie
In grimy haunts Of poverty,
Along the dark and squalid street.,
Mid drunken jests of boor and churl,
She goes with swift and pitying feet
This same-old-fashioned girl.
james B. Kenyon, in the Century.
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NEWS SUMMARY
Eastern and Middle States.

DURING the third quarter of the present
year there were ,g'S business failures in the
United States, with aggregate liabilities oil
S7S, 100000.
THE Volunteer easily defelted lAe Thistle
in the second and concluding race for the
Americas cup at New York.
FIRE DAMP caused by an explosion in Bast
colliery, near Pottsville, Pa, killed four
persons and injured eight Others
ANARCHISTS from New York and vicinity
with their condemned Chicago brethren at
Union Hill, y. j., but were prevented by the
authorities. A riot followed. The riot act
was read, AMI the police dispersed the crowd,
breaking number of heads and taking four
prisoners.
JOHN BOYLE O'REILLY. the Boston editor,
British spies on the Irish in America
Two prominent Irish Home Rulers-Arthur
OConnor and Sir Thomas Esmonde, both
members of the British Parliament-arrived
in New York q few days since, and are max
ing speeches in behalf of the Home Rule
movement
THE Rev. Thomas K. Beecher, of Elmira,
has been nominated for Secretary of State
by the National Greenback. Labor party in
convention at Syracuse. This makes seven
State tickets for New York now in the field
THE annual G. A. r. parade in Pittsburg,
Penn. had s, 600 veterans in line and drew a
large crowd OF spectators
THE Rev. DR.. Joseph Parker, of the City
Temple, London, delivered a eulogy at the
Academy of Music, in Brooklyn, the other
evening on Henry Ward Beecher.
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Washington.

The Navy Department has directed the
Commandants Of the New York and Norfolk
Navy Yards to prepare for the building of
the 6,000-ton ships ordered by Congress.
DURING September the national debt was
decreased S14, ,247, ,!t69. This leaves the tota-
debt, less cash in the Treasury, at s, ,255, go,
500; cash in the Treasury, $47S, ,s96,5l2
THE recent bond purchases at premium
by the Treasury Department effected saw
ing of over four millions of interest money
to the Government.
THERE are fifteen Government Schools in
Alaska. The Territory's school population
numbers $500, and the average attendance
in the fifteen schools is 1,250
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South and West.

A SINGLE highwayman in Texas robbed
two stages the other night, relieving the pas
sengers, who were compelled to stand in a
row on the roadside Of about s., O0O
REV HENRY CLEMENS, while deranged,
shot and killed himself at Cleveland, Ohio.
THE General Assembly of the Knights of
Labor opened at Minneapolis on Monday:
The principal event of the day was General
Master Workman Powderlys address on
"The World as KnighthoCd Would Make
It,"
JOHN NJ. REYNOLDS, journalist, drew n
pistol on Governor Martin, of Kansas, at
Atchison, but was seized bya policeman be-
fore he could use it.
THE National Farmers Alliance held its
seventh annual Convention at Minneapolis,
with fifty delegates from Illinois. Iowa,
Nebraska, Wisconsin, Minnesota and Dakota.
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Morning Dew for Her Complexion.

A Young woman who claims Augusta
as her home, and who officiated as maid
to New York belle who spent last sum-
mer at Bar Harbor, has just cleared up
what was regarded, even at that resort,
used as it is to queer freaks, as mysterious
actions. Every morning my lady's maid
was seen to leave the hotel between i've
and six, and spread on the grass some
thing that looked very like fine white
handkerchief. Then, having waited a
few moments, she would gather up the
article and return to her mistrcss's cham
ber. She now explains that it was part
of her duties to wet lace moueh0r-as
the lady called it-with the early dew OF
morning and tken lay it over the face OF
the New York belle, who had an idea
that it softencd and added beauty and
freshness to her complexion. Privately,
the maid admitted-not expecting to be
engaged by the same damsel another sea-
sonSthat the young hdy's ruse was a
failure, as her complexion always looked
moist and rather shiny, instead OF having
the clear tint she hoped for. That the
first snow of winter is commonly sup
posed to remove frecklcs is an old con-
ceit. but that the morning dew enhances
the complexion of city belle is indeed
new "fad."- ."-Leuiston (Ne.) journal.
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LAKE DISASTERS.
A Propeller and a Schooner
Wrecked in Lake Michigan.
Nearly a Score of Lives Lost in a
Heavy Storm.

A Mackinac City Mich.) dispatch says that
the propeller California, commanded by
Capt. Trowell, left Chicago on Saturday
night, bound for Montreal. She was laden
with 20 900 bushels of corn and 100 barrels of
pork, and carried a crew of twenty two
persons and three passengers. She encoun-
tered heavy wind early on Monday
morning off the Beavers, and at P. N. the
sea had increased so that it was impossible to
steer her, and 300 barrels of pork were thrown
overheard, but without helping her much.
About II p NJ, when just above st. Helena
Island, the sea broke in the gangways and
put out the fires. She then swung around
in the trough Of the sea and began breaking
up.
she was so badly listed that it was impossi le
to lower but one. The Captain went into the
cabin to get the passengers out. but when he
returned found that the first mate and several
men had left with the boat The steamer now
began rapidly breaking up, and soon all hands
we're struggling in the water. The Captain
and engineer succeeded in getting boat
loose from the wreck and picked up the
second engineer, the cook, and one lady passen-
ger. Their boat drifted down alongside the
pTOpeLeT H. TOlSOlH, WuiSu was 6uCuSl GU
under st. Helena, and was picked
up and brought to Mackinac City.
Another boat succeeded in getting ashore
near Point La Barbe. The steamer Faxton
picked up one man who was drifting down
the straits on some wreckage. Captain Tro-
we'll says all were supplied with life preserv-
ers, and it is probable that all the bodies will
be recovered Seven of the crew reached
Point Les Barbes in the lifeboat in an almost
lifeless condition.
Later information places the number lost
at fourteen and the saved thirteen. The wreck
lies a mile from shore and heavy sea is
breaking over it, the masts gone, and the
cabin stands ON end. The survivors were ten
derly cared for by farmers Four of the
sailors were unconscious when shore was
reached and none could walk.
Owen Rourke, a wheelsman, says: "After
all hope had been given up the passengers
and crew gathered in the cabin and put on
life preservers. was standing aft when an
immense sea struck her and threw her over
on her side. When she came down she ap-
peared to strike bottom, and the whole cabin
collapsed with crash"
Rourke says he pulled himself into a life
boat and cut it loose. There were eight
others in the boat with him. They drifted
around the Straits four hours, the boat being
full of water. A fireman and passenger
from Montreal, who were hanging on the
side, were swept overheard and lost.
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A Schooner Wrecked.

The schooner Havana, owned by Captain
A. P. Read, of the Kenosha, was sighted off
st. Joseph, Mich, Monday morning, flying
signals Of distress. The vessel was in sink
ing condition, and the crew were unable to
keep her hold clear Of water. Captain John
Curran concluded to beach her, if possible, and
headed for the shore. At 9 o'clock, when about
three-fourths of mile off shore, the vessel
went down and the crew were seen to climb
into the rigging. There were seven men
aboard. Captain Curran, Steward John
Morris, and sailor named Joseph Clint
climbed into the main rigging and the 9th.
ers into the fore rigging. As the vessel
gave heavy lurch, the mainmast
Crashed overheard, carrying the three
men into the breakers. They struck out
for shore, and when last seen were breasting
the waves. As nothing has been seen OF
them since, they are probably drowned. The
remaining four men clung to the crosstrees
for nearly three hours, when tug came to
their rescue. 1t took nearly three-quarters
of an hour to get the men from their perilous
positiOn.